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@michel_slm@floss.socialIf you need to do #performance #profiling across both #CentOS #Stream 8 and 9, #perf 6.x is now built for both as part of the #Hyperscale SIG!
This post is day 24 of my #100DaysToOffload challenge
https://michel-slm.name/posts/2023-06-29-perf-6-for-hyperscale/
Pensées de MichelPerf 6.x now in CentOS Hyperscale!At Meta, we use sample-based profiling with perf to guide performance optimization work – otherwise we would need even more servers than the ones we already have! This 2018 engineering blog post on BOLT is still highly relevant.
For a primer on perf, I highly recommend reading Brendan Gregg’s perf examples page.
The perf source code is part of the Linux source tree; there are standalone releases but Linux distributions tend to build it from the entire kernel tarball instead (e.